MAC OS X – Running the Electronic BlueBook Setting English as the system default language

It is a requirement for the EBB program to work that the system default language be English, and spell checking requires the default dictionary to be set to English.

1. Open the System Preferences window from the “Apple” menu

2. Choose the International settings pane:

3. Under the “Language” tab, ensure that “English” is the first language listed in the Languages pane on the left hand side. It is OK to have one or more additional languages listed in addition to English:

a. If English is not in the list of languages on the left hand side, click the “Edit List” button to bring up the list of available languages, otherwise continue to the next step:

4. Choose the “Input Menu” Tab, then scroll down to the “U.S.” keyboard and ensure it is selected. It will be helpful to select “Show Input Menu in menu bar” at the bottom of the window:

5. If you were successful, you will not see a language flag at the top right hand side of the screen, ensure that it is the US flag which denotes the current keyboard is US:

6. To set the default dictionary for spell checking as English, open the finder window and click on the “Applications” folder, then start the “TextEdit” program:

7. Once the TextEdit program start, select EDIT menu, and choose “Spelling and Grammer”, then choose “Show Spelling and Grammer”:

8. In the pop‐up window labeled “Spelling and Grammer”, choose ENGLISH as the dictionary at the bottom of the window:

9. At this point you can close the pop‐up window, and quit TextEdit, there is no need to save anything. 10. Before starting the Electronic BlueBook application, make sure the keyboard is set to “US”, the flag icon on the top tool bar will display your current keyboard setting: